You're Never Fully Dressed...

...Without a smile....

I love my daughter -- I'm crazy, mad WILD about her.  I just really and so tired of that song.  I wanted to make a short video and upload it so you could see (I'm so impressed with her) but if I have to hear that song ONE MORE TIME this week I think I'm going to break down into tears. *as I pretend that it is NOT the song she is singing quietly while doing the dishes not 20 feet from me.


I promise to do it soon. I wish I'd gotten to see her audition...we practiced so much that SHE was getting sick of that song.  She mixed up her audition day schedule -- so we sat and waited to be the very last audition today.  I sat with her on a cold tile floor, with my legs falling asleep every two minutes, in my work clothes (a dress) without supper (til almost 8) nothing to occupy my time (except listening to high school students trying to get excited parents, children and other teenagers to shuush so that the auditions could be heard by the director and team of people judging the auditions) and watched my daughter become increasingly more nervous with every stroke of the second hand....tick.....tock.

It was nice to spend awkward time with her, it was nice to BE there for her first ever audition for anything...and it was really all worth it -- completely and totally worth while when she came out of that room beaming from ear-to-ear with her callback paper, with the words..."Congratulations! You have received a callback!" highlighted in yellow at the top of the sheet and a explicit instructions of what that means and how to proceed.

I hope she receives SOME part in the show, I know she will be horribly disappointed initially if she doesn't have a name -- but at the same time -- she will be so excited to be IN the show once the production and rehearsals start running.

I'm so proud of her, and it's sincerely amazing to see her grow and shape into the beautiful, ambitious and talented young lady that she is...despite all the melancholy dramatics, it's moments like today that just really make being a parent a neat experience.

Send good thoughts her way between 3:45 and 7:00 EST tomorrow -- she will be singing, learning a short dance and doing what she can to WOW her way into the show.